A guidable sonobuoy is disclosed that is ejected from a moving aircraft into the free stream with a ring wing opened to guide the buoy along a predetermined flight path. While the buoy remains packed inside a launch container, the ring wing, made of spring steel, is collapsed around the nose portion thereof. Once launched, the ring wing will fly the buoy to a predetermined destination.
Guidable Stores
1990
13 pages
Report
No indication
English
Acoustic Detection , Ocean Sciences & Technology , Instruments , Aircraft , Buoys , Containers , Flight paths , Free stream , Launching , Motion , Noses , Ring wings , Sonobuoys , Springs , Steel , Patent applications , Air launched , Spring steel , Gliding , Expandable structures , Guidable stores , Aerodynamic stability
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